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Boiss.— Jerusalem. Dr. Roth, 1860. Herb. Kew.—S. orientale, Linn. 
Tibney Bashan. В. T. Lowne, 1863-4. Herb. Kew., Fielding, and Univ. 
Cantab.—s. palestinum, Boiss. East of Jordan. J. A. Paine, 1873. Herb. 
Kew.—Tom Niha (Taw amat. ?), Monte Libano. J. Ball, 1877. Herb. 
Kew.—Between Hasbeiya and = Rascheya. Ex herb. Postian., 1877. 
Herb, Kew.—Reservoirs de Salomon, Palestine. W. Barbey, 1880. Herb.. 
DC—Es Salt (Ramoth Gilead). Ex herb. Postian, 1886. Herb. Mus. Brit. 
—Safed, N. Galilee. Bornmüller, no. 1138, 1897. Herb. Boiss. 
Var. DENTATUM, Boiss. Folia acute denticulata. 
Hab. “in Lycia prope Kourmala ad occidentem urbis Adalia et in Monte 
Solyma.” 
Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. p. 173. 
SPECIMEN EXAMINED: А, palestinum var. dentatum. Kourmala, 1875 
Herb. Boissier. 
Var. MAJUS, var. nov. Folia membranacea, ampla in petiolum sensim 
attenuata. 
Caulis 5 dem. altus ; folia ad 17 em. longa, 7:5 em. lata ; flores 16 mm. 
longi; calyx 8 mm. longus. 
Has. TurKey: Cilicia. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED :—S. palestinum, Boiss. Cilicia. W. Siehe, No. 55, 
1896. Herb. Kew., Mus. Brit., and Fielding. 
S. palestinum forms, with S. brachycalya and S. Bornmuelleri, a group 
of closely allied species. These must be carefully distinguished from each 
other, but are, nevertheless, separated by well defined characters, and occupy 
areas which do not overlap. From 5, brachycalyx, 5. palestinum differs in 
the lower leaves being more often rounded or subcordate at the base, 
although they are sometimes attenuated into the petiole as in that species, 
and in the calyx, which is much more accrescent in fruit. From S. Born- 
muelleri it is easily distinguished, even in a young stage, by the subdicho- 
tomous branching of the stem, and by the more deeply divided calyx with linear 
or triangular teeth, which are generally one-third as long as the calyx itself. 
In * Flora Orientalis" Boissier states that the leaves are not truly decurrent, 
but that the petioles are produced into the angles of the stem ; this is not 
easily detected in the dry plant. In the * Diagnoses,’ however, he describes 
the upper leaves as shortly decurrent, and this is seen to be the case in 
Boissier’s own specimens, 
The area of S. pal«stinum extends further south than that ef any known 
species ; commencing in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem, it includes a zone 
passing through Syria round the eastern shores of the Mediterrranean, 
and along the Taurus range through Cilicia to Lycia. 
